H264 support in Vegas 14

[Jon Muro]

I’ll give that a try John. Thanks for your help.

thanks
Jon Muro
Absolutely Phenomenal Video

[Jon Muro]

I downloaded a trial version of Vegas 14 to see if the files would import but the same thing happened. Just audio shows up on the timeline.

The files I have been sent from Hong Kong were shot with a JVC camera in .mov format. Last time I received files like this I transcoded them with the JVC Pro HD Clip Manager. But last time they sent me the SD cards. This time they Dropbox them to me. As a result the transcoder will not import them as it doesn’t see an SD card. I have been transcoding them with Adobe media encoder into mpeg 4 which is working out fine. I guess JVC has it’s own codec inside that .mov wrapper? Anyone else have this problem with JVC .mov files and vegas ?
Incidentally, if you record mpeg 4 with this camera (and I’m sorry I don’t know which camera it is) they work in vegas just fine.

Thank you guys for trying to help with this. Looks like I found the workaround, hassle that it is.

thanks
Jon Muro
Absolutely Phenomenal Video

[Jeff Pulera]

Hi Jon,

If transcoding .mp4 clips for the purpose of editing them, I would not transcode to .mp4 (H.264) as that is a lossy format. I’d be using a high-quality intermediate such as Cineform or DNxHD which are both available in Premiere/Media Encoder CC if that is what you are using to transcode.

The GoPro Cineform codec is available under the QuickTime format, or choose DNxHD MXF format.

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
Safe Harbor Computers

[Jon Muro]

Thanks Jeff for your input. Not too sure it matters so much in this case as it all gets bumped down to 480p. Good to know though, I did not realize it was a lossy format.
Appreciated.

thanks
Jon Muro
Absolutely Phenomenal Video

[John Rofrano]

[Jon Muro] ” I guess JVC has it’s own codec inside that .mov wrapper? Anyone else have this problem with JVC .mov files and vegas ?”

This is very typical of JVC in general. They tend to go off on their own and use proprietary formats that no one else does which makes them incompatible. I’ve seen it happen for years now and for this reason I would NEVER buy a JVC camera. If you gave me one, I’d sell it on eBay and buy a Sony or Panasonic. JVC will tell you that they are being progressive, leading the industry in new directions, but they are just causing headaches for their consumers leading them in circles by being incompatible. So I’m not surprised at all by this. As I said, it’s been happening for years. JVC = non-standard.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasstsoftware.com

[Scott Francis]

Check these out, I use them quite often.

https://hypedphoto.com/ezencoder.cfm

I HAVE had an anti-virus find a false-positive issue with these, but they are fine and very useful.
There are loss-less versions that may get you to a format that is better to use.

Good luck

Xavier (Scott) Francis
Mind\’s Eye Audio/Video Productions